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Forums - Sales Discussion - Uncharted 3 shipped 3.8m Day 1: Sony

Jay520 said:
hmmm... 3.8million shipped..

...if we extrapulate that for weekly sales, we can estimate that is SOLD at least 5million first week, likely 6million....

...Which means it sold about 4million Day 1...

...Using that figure, it likely sold 10million within the first hour...

...which equates to at least 30 million preorders....

...which should translate into at least 100 Million units first week....

VGChartz needs major adjusting!

I have triple-checked your numbers and I see nothing wrong. Can't argue with that.



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Munkeh111 said:
So basically, Sony has sold 3.8m copies of Uncharted 3, which means > $100m in revenue, which means profit!

So everyone should be happy!

But I would really wish that publishers stopped announced these hugely inflated figures of their launch day shipments. Most of these copies probably aren't even in shops, just in boats or trucks. Batman AC shipped 4.1m copies despite VGC saying it had sold around 2m in its first week, so Uncharted is only a little under tracked


Publishers are always gonna say whatever is the biggest number and makes them look better. Deal with it.



morenoingrato said:
@BHR:
Could you use some common sense?
If Uncharted 3 is undertracked in EMEAA, I bet it would be 200k TOP.
Such a massive growth in EMEAA is unrealistic, and thinking it is undertracked almost 2:1 is just a hopeful wish.


here we go again

i dont care bout UC3 sales i already stated what the game will sell by yrs end i dont even like the series much, why i quoted you and john was for the disrespect the fail's, lol's and claiming to know what the game had already sold for its 1st week bases on VGC numbers as if they are set in stone

common sense?! you think these threads would be possible if i used common sense

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=57064

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=66707

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=86948&page=1

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=93666

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=100274

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=116902

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=117165

 

i get it... your a young newer member, came on the site and demanded machina to know when the site would get overhauled and to hire you for a position on the site.  i dont care for posters posts if they sound outrageous ect. i wont judge people like that but some damn respect would go all long way. 

just look at yojohn he did the same thing you did in here last yr. with CODBO on PS3 prophesy "i don't think it will but if it does I will cut myself until i'm dead" and even "kowen when vgc showed that my CODBO prediction was inaccurate "keep throwing those random darts...... some will hit the target eventually." at the end of the day VGC did adjust up CODBO later on after release and my prophesy was accurate and those posts made by those posters are the real lol and fail moments

if you noticed my reply to you i never claimed UC3 1st week in EU will be x amount i just said that there is a possibility.  i believe though that it is undertracked here based on my own beliefs and that the shipped to sold ratio is off compared to other recently released games and even to past games that we have shipments for.  and that also UC2 LT sales are 5M sold to costumers hands, you have to remember that other than myself no one knew how big UC2 would be so its acceptable for its 1st week/month sales not to be that huge but not for UC3.  i find it hard that out of that 5M that only around 1M bought UC3 in its first week



                                                             

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Nice job from ND on this one. I know they might have overstocked but It does look like a success. Were the preorder figures higher than Uncharted 2s? Presume so.



ethomaz said:

Full PR.

"Sony Computer Entertainment Europe today announced Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception™ day one global sales of 3.8 million units. The PlayStation®3 exclusive title – released to universal critical acclaim (Metacritic: 92*) – has smashed sales expectations to become one of the best-selling titles of 2011, putting the third instalment on a clear course to be the biggest selling game in the trilogy.

Nick Caplin Head of Communications at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe commented, “Uncharted 3 is a blockbuster and these incredible sales figures reflect that. Consumers are clearly as eager to play the game as critics were to heap praise upon it, and the team at Naughty Dog deserve this fantastic reception at retail. The Uncharted series, exclusive to PlayStation®3, has redefined the third-person adventure genre and is now one of the leading franchises available.”"

Full PR indeed.



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Xero said:
Nice job from ND on this one. I know they might have overstocked but It does look like a success. Were the preorder figures higher than Uncharted 2s? Presume so.

yea 187k v near 500k UC3. looks like i need to hit the front page to see NPD.



Gamasutra

Sony confirmed to Gamasutra that the figure given is shipped, rather than sold.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/38501/Uncharted_3_Ships_38M_Units_On_Launch_Day.php



Noobie said:
Wow this means shelves full of unsold UC3


No it actually means a lot will be sold, most likely the majority and still some on shelves, also it'll easily sell the shipped amount by year's end and more.



           

99% the number is shipped, we all know how great Uncharted is but it cannot sell 3.8m on the first day...

and there will be many unsold, especially since people will stuck on the CoD instead

*now i see Sony says sold, which means VGC or Sony is lying

personally i find 3.8m first day very unexpected



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Sony confirmed to IGN that the figure given is sold, rather than shipped.

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/121/1212156p1.html



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